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The use of industrial wireless networks has been growing continuously and has become an alternative to cable based networks. One of the main elements of an industrial wireless network is the network manager, which is responsible for tasks related to network construction and maintenance. This work presents the development of a network manager compatible with WirelessHART protocol, which can be customized to allow modifications in its main tasks in order to carry out improvements within this protocol. The results obtained through case studies showed manager’s validation by using it in developing protocol improvements, which were not allowed to be executed in commercial devices. Details of the case studies are presented. The manager is used for studies related to communications scheduling, adaptive channel mapping, and mobility applications, showing that the developed manager allows research from different aspects of the protocol.
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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001 and by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). An early version of paper was presented at XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA 2020).
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Cainelli, G., Feldman, M., Cruz, T.R. et al. Development of a Network Manager Compatible with WirelessHART Standard. J Control Autom Electr Syst 34, 872–882 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40313-023-01002-8
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